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The Acts Of The Maoists

John Scott Mao: The People's Emperor Dick Wilson (Hutchinson £9.95) The China Difference Ed. Ross Terrill (Harper & Row £6.95) Inside Peking Beverley Hooper (Macdonald and......

Africa Hands

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Tales from the Dark Continent Ed. Charles Allen (Deutsch/BBC £6 1 95) Some friends of mine recently celebrated the arrival of a new baby; the father,......